memoirs of a pentecostal PK abused by spam sandwiches & the color red..

8.7.10

the latest Frying SPAM news!

Hey SPAM slicers,

Just a few notes on my writing adventures for your hot summer day.

At the end of the month I'll be headed to a famously outrageous NJ bookstore and music venue for an advance reading from my Frying SPAM memoir. For the first time in many years, I'll be pulling out my guitar as well to play a few flashback tunes from my two CD's. Here is the link to RSVP with the place and date and time and map and all the rest. I sure hope to see many of you that have been following my writing adventures of the years show up to support indie publishing. And of course, I'd love to meet you too. Perhaps you can even join me for an adult beverage after the show. The event is free and public, so invite all your friends on facebook. RSVP HERE

I'm currently putting the finishing touches on the manuscript and hope to have it off to New York City shortly. This revision is nearly double the length of the first version that I read at the Memories & Martinis event last fall. I've followed the suggestions of a sharp agent that is is very hot for comedic religious themed nonfiction. I'm quite happy with this version too. I am committed to seeing this through and have no doubt that you will see it bound soon. Check out the new webpage here with great new slices from all 17 Chapters!

Finally, my plan is to blow off this blog soon and move all Frying SPAM memoir excitement over to a facebook page. It will be more streamlined with everyone's activities and communications. So click here to 'like' the page and stay in the loop. And hey, I'm collecting cool vintage SPAM images, videos, and other SPAM junk there too. Show me what you got!

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.:: about me ::.

I'm a slightly ordinary writer, songwriter, & teacher.. fascinated by all things pleasurable and sensuous.. I beat back existential miseries by drinking cabernet copiously.. & on occasion paint nudes, circus tents, & wildflowers.. before my more humanistic pursuits, I lived a monastic life of the catholic kind.. traveled extensively.. & later took up an education in writing, literature, & philosophy.. I currently teach college writing & modern lit & continue shopping my humorous memoirs to the suits on Park Ave.. Nice to know you.. and please share..

.:: about this blog ::.

Here you'll find updates on my adventures in landing a book deal for FRYING SPAM, my bizarre yet wildly humorous memoirs of a pentecostal preacher's kid abused by spam sandwiches & the color red.. follow along with me in near real time as I post snippets of my publishing journey..

.:: about frying spam ::.

Frying Spam and Other Things to do Before the Rapture is a memoir of a Pentecostal preacher’s kid growing up in a Pennsylvania steel town. Each chapter explores a formative humorous experience—from my kindergarten infatuation with Denise the pirate, to a pubescent French kiss lesson on a hayride with Jane, a hell-bound sinner. Narrated in the playful voice of a boy, these thirteen narratives embrace the oddities of my Christian Fundamentalist family and my curiosity for everything they said could send me to a lake of fire.

Frying Spam reveals a child fascinated by speaking in tongues, the butchery of a Quaker goat, the exorcism of a gay demon, and the impending doom and disaster of the rapture. In “Our Side,” I help Dad erect a wall between us and our Catholic neighbors. This chapter had its genesis during my graduate studies in creative non-fiction with Thomas E. Kennedy at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Other ideas, for the chapters titled “Fetch the Fowl,” and “Spam Sandwiches and the Color Red,” came to be while earning a BA in Philosophy and English. Click below for a read and a laugh.